Improvement in anvils for paper cartridge-shells



l LJ. SAGET. ANVILS FOR PAPER-CARTRIDGE SHELLS.

N@174,705. Patnte MarCh14,1a76`.

UivrTiiD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIEN SAGET, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT vIN ANVlLS FOR PAPER-CARTRIDGE-SHELLS.

Specification forming part of lLetters Patent No. l 74,705, dated March 14,1876; application filed August 2o, iste.

To all whom it may concern to explode without injury to the shell. The Bc it known that I, JULIEN SAGET, a resigroove c extends lentirely accross the top of dent ci' the city of New Orleans, and State of the conical head ol the anvil, thereby giving Louisiana, have invented a certain new and greater Isurface for the passage of the aine, useful linproavement in Anvils for Paper Uartand more certainly insuring the discharge of ridge-Shells; and l do hereby deel-are the t'olthe cartridge than if a side groove only were lowing to be a full, clear, and correct descrip' employed. The old cap is readily removed tion oil the same, ieference being had Lo the from the shell by means of the device shown annexed drawing, making a part of this speciat Fig. 3, which is constructed of Wood r 0f iication. any other' desirable material. Its stem dis 'My invention relates to an improvementin'vv made small eii'ongh to be readily inserted in anvils for use in paper-shell cartridges. lts the paper shell, and its end is provided in its peculiar construction and merits will be readicenter with a socket, (shown in' dotted lines,) ly understood by referring to the accompanythe bottom of which receives the point of the ing drawing, on whichanvil, keeping it in a central position while Figurel is la perspective view 'of an ordinit is being pushed outward. from'the shell, ary paper cartridge-shell. Fig. Zis a sectional which act disengagcs the old cap and leaves 'view of the same, as when provided with my the anvil ready for a new one. improved anvil. l Fig. 3 is a device for disen- I am awarethat detachable anvils with gaging the old caps. Fig. 4 is the cup or conical heads have heretofore been inserted socket of the shell, in which the anvil and inthe base-plate of cartridge shells. I am firingcap is held. Fig.oisa detached view also aware that an Vanvil provided with ol' my improved anvil. grooves has heretofore been employed. l,-

My invention consists in providing, ina therefore, do not claim the same as myV inven,

single piece', an anvil of brass, iron, or steel, tion; but the head a of which is somewhat larger in di- What l do claim as new, and desire to seameter than its stem b, and made slightly concure by Letters Patent, is

' -ical in lorin, to receive .thereupon 'the neces- As a new 'article oi' manufacture, the solid sary cap for the explosion ot' the char-ge con anvil herein described, having the conical tained within the shell to which the said anvil head (i, stein b, and groove c, extending across is applied. The peculiar feature of my inthe top of the conical hea-(Land thenceconvention consists in the formation across the tinued down one side of the head and stem, head of the anvil of a narrow groove, c, which as described,and for thepnrpose sety forth.

is continued down one side of the said head and stem, and to the very point of the latter. Witnesses:

Through this groove the fire is conveyed in a J. M. CESSAO, straight line to the charge, causing the same H. N. JENKINS;

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